Category Archives: About the Guide

News / Talk realignment

Posted on May 30, 2016 by Fred Stiening

Around 80% of visitors here are looking for political talk, and around 1,000 radio stations are 24 hour a day political talk. To focus on those stations, I’ve put them in their own category. I’ve included NPR’s Ideas Network (or … Continue reading →

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Marimba jobs Americans just won’t do

Posted on May 28, 2016 by Fred Stiening

Shimon the Marimba bot Working to make Jazz great again NPR has 24×7 music channels called All Songs Considered heating up the annoyance with your local NPR affiliate, competing for the ear space of Public radio listeners Your New Robot … Continue reading →

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Less random randomness

Posted on May 28, 2016 by Fred Stiening

One of the little known functions of the web site is the ability to have a random stream selected to play when you aren’t sure what to listen to. Click me! Up until now, the options to narrow what you … Continue reading →

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Holiday schedule

Posted on May 27, 2016 by Fred Stiening

The web server should remain up and nothing out of the ordinary. I would like to be the first to wish you a happy Labour Day! ?

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Streaming’s top 20

Posted on May 27, 2016 by Fred Stiening

So after the shakeout in the streaming business, who is left? The graphic is a little confusing – for Linux friendly and mobile friendly, the left side is the current state (penguin or happy face) – the link next to … Continue reading →

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HTML5 – what you need to know

Posted on May 21, 2016 by Fred Stiening

Streaming used to be painful. There were 100 different types of players – some needed special applications or plugins, some only worked on some types of computers, some required special decoders that required breaking patent rights. In 2016, 2/3rds of … Continue reading →

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Disqus experiment

Posted on May 21, 2016 by Fred Stiening

About three years ago, I experimented briefly with the Disqus commenting system. I think I have it set up now that each radio station has its own thread. It’s hard to say what people may post. I frequently get PSA … Continue reading →

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Adjustment to account verification

Posted on May 17, 2016 by Fred Stiening

If you previously registered an account but never got the email, or never figured out how to complete the verification process (it was broken for a while), those accounts (roughly 3,000 of them) are now deleted, so you can try … Continue reading →

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Unplanned outage

Posted on May 16, 2016 by Fred Stiening

Around 4:30 AM, I restarted the server and it went into hiding. I still don’t know exactly what happened. Those of you with a high geek quotient may notice the server has a new IP address (IPv4 and IPv6), but … Continue reading →

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Call to listen

Posted on May 15, 2016 by Fred Stiening

The concept of “call to listen” seems to be growing. This started on ethnic stations and apparently is widely used in Asia. Rather than needing a smart phone with a data plan, if you have any phone with unlimited long … Continue reading →

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